{"id":42600,"date":"2021-03-30T19:31:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T19:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/?p=42600"},"modified":"2021-06-14T18:53:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T18:53:01","slug":"campus-kitchen-alumni-spotlight-yasmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/2021\/03\/30\/campus-kitchen-alumni-spotlight-yasmin\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Kitchen Alumni Spotlight: Yasmin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many incredible student leaders have worked with Augsburg&#8217;s Campus Kitchen (CK) program over the years. Current CK student leaders Alana Goodson and Chouneng Khang interviewed several CK alumni to learn more about their experiences with the program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yasmin &#8216;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2015: Biology Major and Religion Minor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/03\/yasmin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2021\/03\/yasmin.png\" alt=\"Student holding CK sign\" width=\"221\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>What sparked your interest in Campus Kitchen?<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wanted to be a part of helping our neighbors in need.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love what Campus Kitchen stands for! I admire its mission to serve the community that surrounds the campus by making healthy food accessible.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>What was your role with CK?<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My role was to help build sustainability and capacity building. I recruited volunteers, organized events that educated others about food equity and provided ways people could access healthy foods.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I attended food deliveries at sites like Ebenezer Towers and Brian Coyle.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I hosted an event where I invited special speaker LaDonna Redmond, a food justice advocate to discuss issues surrounding food equity.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I helped with fundraising through Give to the Max for Campus Kitchen.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I explored different modalities for volunteers to participate in reflection so that volunteers get a chance to understand the impact of their volunteering.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I worked in the community garden. I coordinated with gardeners about their plots and addressed any issues that they had.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>\u00a0What were some of the highlights of your time with CK?<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I attended the Food Waste &amp; Hunger Summit in Arkansas. I learned about different ways we can combat ending hunger and poverty. It was a fun road trip! At the end of my year of service, I also presented at the 2016 Nonprofit Leadership Conference about my experience with Campus Kitchen and Health Commons. The theme of the conference was courageous engagement across differences which fit perfectly with my experience!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I learned leadership, communication, time management, planning &amp; organizing, teamwork, conflict resolution, empathy, adaptability &amp; flexibility, networking, and cultural awareness.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>What are you up to now? How does it connect to CK?<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m attending the American University of Antigua School of Medicine. I\u2019m currently in my 3<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> year of clinical rotations in New York.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working with Campus Kitchen solidified my pursuit in working in community health and focusing on serving underrepresented communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Advice for current, future, past CK interns\/volunteers?<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get to know the community you&#8217;re serving by building relationships. Take time to listen to community members\u2019 stories&#8211; their stories matter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t be afraid to ask questions if you have any cultural or religious differences when making food and delivering food with the community members. 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